FLASH
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Beyond corruption, the government is responsible in the longer term for the development strategy of one of the areas with high tourist potential. And always the gap left by the law is filled by illegality and the wild market.
In Theth, the blame is shared between the state and the illegal builders. The state's blame, now admitted by the government itself, is the entire administrative and political structure that has allowed the constructions, which for me is very credible that they were allowed through money under the table. And the damage is double, since they have encouraged a major crime, for their own profit.
Beyond corruption, the government is responsible in the longer term for the development strategy of one of the areas with high tourist potential. And always the gap left by the law is filled by illegality and the wild market.
But now the debate about Theth cannot be held like the debate about the 5 Maji neighborhood in Tirana and the land of Nëna Lizës. The debate about Theth makes sense to be held by agreeing that if we are going to talk about the perspective of a tourist place or a dormitory. As a dormitory, it is not worth a single lek, if it ruins the tourist perspective. Because if it was good for a dormitory, it would not be emptied until interest in tourism appeared.
Demolishing the building and returning to ground zero is an obligation for the government, but at a cost that it must be prepared to pay. And this is not just about financial costs, but about an urgent plan for the development of sustainable tourism in that area.
What was starting to happen is neither tourism, nor sustainable, nor legal. It is essentially the murder of tourism for that area. Its ban does honor to the area and the tourism operators in Theth themselves, despite the emotions of the day.
If we go back in time and accept that the Rinia Park and the Lanës River had taken the sweat and blood of hundreds of investors in Tirana, they would of course never have been demolished, even though the state itself was responsible for them.
But I have never known any former illegal builder in Rinia Park who didn't fare better later, when he built with permission and benefited from Tirana's development.
The same thing should happen in Theth.
Every entity that is being harmed by this completely necessary and overdue action should sit down with the government in negotiations and agree on a development plan that guarantees their investments not only from a legal point of view, but also from a market point of view. Thethi will no longer be a tourist attraction if its stunning plateaus and surrounding hills are bathorized. And here I do not mean only unauthorized construction on private land or father's land, but also construction with permission.
Our administration does more harm when it grants permission than when it does not grant permission.
So, the debate should not focus on "father's land", nor on "occupied land", nor on illegal construction. The greatest danger to Theth in the future may be illegal construction, if it is not done within a clear plan for the development of sustainable tourism.
Sustainable tourism in those areas is family tourism, tourism of towers and large guesthouses that are managed by family labor and that guarantee identity, friendship with nature and above all do not disappoint tourists from all over the world who go to Theth and Valbona for nature. They went there even when there were no guesthouses.
The scenes today and in the coming weeks in Theth will be severe, but those scenes would be even more severe if Theth were left in free fall and in the will that is cutting the branch of the tree it is climbing.
The only solution is for every affected person and others who want to invest in that area to be given priority incentives to orient themselves towards a legal business that guarantees the survival of Theth as a tourist destination and not as a sleeping area.
If we kill Thethi as a tourist destination, all these other debates are in vain. It will be a greater wound to see empty silos built, where no one steps, than to correct a wrong development due to the fault of the government and the residents themselves.
This "mort" in Theth could be a strong turning point, to look the tourism problem in Theth in the eye and give it a long-term solution, which could make us forget the pain of today's mistakes by the government and the builders.
Only she can ensure that Thethi will remain a tourist destination and not a Bathore exported as an "opposition" development model. All those who promote this development model and come out to the mob with Molotov cocktails simply want to make it worse for those unfortunate people, who have already been harmed enough by being left to do whatever they want.
All those who until now have rightly attacked the government in some cases for exceeding development permits in tourist areas, or who talk about the damage to nature, have suddenly lined up in favor of a development model that is killing Theth. I repeat: it is not about the father's land, the occupied land or the lack of a building permit. They are regulated with little will. The problem is how Theth will survive as a tourist area and how to serve those residents, including the victims of this model.
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